Thursday, May 9, 2013

Take A Hike With Simple Stories

It's
been a LONG winter in Colorado and we are actually still getting snow
believe it or not. However, my family loves to camp and hike so we had
to head west on I-70 in search of sunshine and warmth. We found it in
Fruita, CO near the Colorado National Monument last weekend and actually
got to spend a few days in 70 degree weather even though the night
dropped to 30 degrees (not my ideal for sleeping outside, but still more
fun than snow at my house).

I thought the Simple Stories Take a Hike collection
was great fit for these photos. It's almost as if the Simple Stories
designers know exactly where the Qualmans like to camp and created the
perfect sentiments and color palettes. This collection was made for
the National Park circuit if you KWIM.

The
other thing that is so wonderful about this collection is that it is so
thoughtful that I did not need to add anything more than my photos and
journaling - simple right? Just the way I like to get the memories of
our trips documented.It
was so easy to make these pages that I don't have a lot of tips, except
that I love to buy postcards from all of the national and state parks
that we visit because then I have the perfect beauty shot of where we
are staying with the title already added to the photo. Makes it even
easier to document the trip and the park service profits from my
purchase. Talk about good Karma...I
also cut off a piece of the map we were given at the park entrance to
show the trail we hiked along the rim of the canyon and added a smaller
photo of the hikers in our party to one of the Take a Hike 4 x 6 journal cards. Makes a fun and easy compilation. I used my Xyron Mega Runner to adhere the map and photo to the 4 x 6 journal card.I cut out this little photo from the park brochure and added it and the fun footprints from the 12 x 12 Fundamental Cardstock Stickers to a 3 x 4 journal card.The 12 x 12 Expression Cardstock Stickers are great for adding your own sentiment with the letters and journal spots.My son discovered the water source at our campsite and washed himself off a bit. He was very pleased with his work.I
love the spacing on the 4 x 6 journal cards because it allows me to
write big loopy letters in my cursive. I just added a couple of journal
stickers to this card and called it good.